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A Lurker's History of Paradox and the Paradox Community *
by Stacy Rowley

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The Early DOS Days: the Paradox Conferences

Bag from a Paradox Conference Logo from a bag from a Paradox Conference From April 29 through May 2, 1990, an extraordinary experience for the Paradox community took place. This was the first Borland Paradox International Users Conference held in Monterey, California, something that several key application developers had urged Borland to arrange. You must realize that only a limited number of the people mentioned above and the people on the BORDB forum had ever met face-to-face. This conference of 700 attendees had an atmosphere of many pen pals from around the world seeing each other in person for the first time. One night the entertainment after dinner was a magic show starring Phillipe Kahn, with the closing act having him stick knives into a box containing Dan Ehrmann. The following year's conference was held in Scottsdale, Arizona. The gurus gave presentations, the third-party vendors displayed their wares, and Phillipe Kahn played the sax at these conferences.
Bag from a Paradox Conference Logo from a bag from a Paradox Conference T-Shirt from a Paradox Conference
At Monterey, there was a Scandinavian contingent. Peter Olausson from Sweden was there with two of his employees and there were other Swedes and Danish people there. The Danish Borland office had brought green/violet warm-ups or jump suits, which the contingent wore. Peter says he still has his jump suit somewhere and that its quality was great. If one specific thing about the conference lingers in attendees' memories years later, it probably is those jump suits! There were also some French, and no doubt several other countries were represented.

Paradox Developers Partners Program 3.5 Paradox Developers Partners Program 4.0 At the Scottsdale conference, Borland's Diane Rogers proposed the idea of a Paradox Developers Partners Program (PDPP) and led a discussion. Diane contributed much to a successful startup of PDPP. Also at the Scottsdale conference, attendees viewed a sneak preview of current Paradox for Windows ideas.


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